Surmet

An entrepreneur’s vision and a company’s birth: An interview with Surmet’s Suri Sastri

By Stephanie Liverani / September 9, 2015

Suri Sastri, president and founder of Surmet Corporation, shares insights about the company’s journey to success with ACerS in this video interview. Surmet won the ACerS Corporate Technical Achievement Award in October 2013.

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Surmet’s technology travels through space for exclusive closeup with Pluto

By April Gocha / August 14, 2015

NASA’s New Horizons mission, which recently provided the first glimpse of dwarf planet Pluto, wouldn’t have been successful without Surmet technology.

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / February 28, 2014

Ceramics and glass business news of the week

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / December 27, 2013

New circuit design allows for elimination of laptop charger brick Power electronics maker FINsix Corporation announced the development of smallest known laptop adaptor that is one-fourth the size of traditional…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / June 28, 2013

GE cuts costs, boosts jet efficiency with ceramic parts (Wall St Cheat Sheet) In an attempt to reduce maintenance and fuel costs, General Electric is investing in production of ceramic-based…

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Companies race to scale up spinel for armor, optical applications

By Jim Destefani / June 14, 2013

Artist’s rendering of the USS Zumwalt in action. First in a new class of Navy destroyers, the Zumwalt will use transparent MgAl2O4 deckhouse windows. Credit: US Navy. Two manufacturers are in…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / May 31, 2013

Surmet’s large-scale transparent aluminum oxynitride armor window. The company is on track to scale up fabrication processes to double the size of the windows in the next year. Credit: Surmet.…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / October 16, 2012

Check ’em out: Kyocera’s new M-Six Shell Mill double-sided CNC cutting tool. Kyocera introduces new milling cutters for CNC machining featuring inserts with proprietary Megacoat Nano technology Kyocera Industrial Ceramics…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / July 13, 2012

Here is what we are hearing: Surmet’s transparent, tiled, three-panel ALON armor window. Credit: Surmet. Advances in making large ALON transparent armor windows Surmet continues its advances in fabricating cost…

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Other materials science stories that may be of interest

By / June 5, 2012

This “trigonal bipyramidal” crystalline structure that forms the basis of Oregon State University‘s “cool blue” pigment (see below). Credit: OSU. Check ’em out: “I like to break things”: Janine Schneider…

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